Hello Art,
I would use Eagle after dimensioning their drawing using some free CAD
software that can open DXFs.
-
Martin


Art wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I found a very nice vhf preamp that uses a dual gate mosfet. The 
> author YU1AW did the design and published the article in 2000. 
> Despite the fact that it's slightly dated, I can find no better 
> design and since I have a bunch for the smt dual gate mosfets in my 
> junkbox already, it's a natural!
> 
> However, the author only has autocad .dwg files for the board, and I 
> need to convert them to gerber. I tried 2 free converter programs, 
> both of them produced different types of files, but none of them were 
> gerber files. I have a free gerber viewer and it works fine for pcb's 
> that are produced in gerber, but for some reason, it errors out with 
> the converted files.
> 
> Can anyone suggest a gerber file converter software, or a PCB design 
> program that will import .dwg and export gerber (after making a few 
> minor revisions).
> 
> The preamp is at:
> 
> http://www.qsl.net/yu1aw/bf998eng.htm
> 
> I am interested in the 1444 MHz version, not the 432 MHz version.
> 
> The PCB is simple, and it's only real issue is an onboard inductor 
> made on the surface of the PCB. But, I was able to measure the size 
> and width/height of the inductor, so I can reproduce it if necessary. 
> It might be just as easy to redo the board completely from scratch. 
> What PCB software (free) is good, it has to be 2 sided board, 
> although one side is just a solid sheet that is used for shielding.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Art
> 

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